Lab Equipment

Dissecting needle

A slender, usually sharp-pointed instrument used for puncturing tissues, suturing, or passing a ligature around an artery.

Evaporating dish

A small ceramic dish in which liquids are heated over a flame so that they evaporate, leaving a solid residue.

Test tube

A thin glass tube closed at one end, used to hold small amounts of material for laboratory testing or experiments. Denoting things produced or processes performed in a laboratory.

Wire gauze

A thin translucent fabric of silk, linen, or cotton. A transparent haze or film. A very fine wire mesh.

Funnel

A tube or pipe that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, used for guiding liquid or powder into a small opening.

Volumetric flask

A volumetric flask (measuring flask or graduated flask) is a piece of laboratory glassware, a type of laboratory flask, calibrated to contain a precise volume at a particular temperature. Volumetric flasks are used for precise dilutions and preparation of standard solutions.

Wash bottle

A wash bottle is a squeeze bottle with a nozzle, used to rinse various pieces of laboratory glassware, such as test tubes and round bottom flasks. Wash bottles are sealed with a screw-top lid.

Watch glass

A watch glass is a circular concave piece of glass used in chemistry as a surface to evaporate a liquid, to hold solids while being weighed, or as a cover for a beaker.

Spatula

An implement with a broad, flat, blunt blade, used for mixing and spreading things, especially in cooking and painting.

Bunsen burner

A Bunsen burner, named after Robert Bunsen, is a common piece of laboratory equipment that produces a single open gas flame, which is used for heating, sterilization, and combustion. The gas can be natural gas (which is mainly methane) or a liquefied petroleum gas, such as propane, butane, or a mixture of both.

Florence flask

A Florence flask is a type of flask used as an item of laboratory glassware. It is used as a container to hold liquids. A Florence flask has a round body with a flat bottom and a single long neck.

Stirring rod

A Glass rod, stirring rod or stir rod is a piece of laboratory equipment used to mix chemicals and liquids for laboratory purposes. They are usually made of solid glass, about the thickness and slightly longer than a drinking straw, with rounded ends.

Petri dish

A Petri dish (sometimes spelled "Petrie dish" and alternatively known as a Petri plate or cell-culture dish), named after the German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri, is a shallow cylindrical glass or plastic lidded dish that biologists use to culture cells - such as bacteria - or small mosses.

Balance (electronic or triple beam)

A balance that generates a current proportional to the displacement of the pan. Type of: balance. a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity. electronic balance. The Triple Beam Balance is a typical mechanical balance. It has a beam which is supported by a fulcrum. On one side is a pan on which the object is placed. On the other side, the beam is split into three parallel beams , each supporting one weight.

Buret

A burette (also buret) is a device used in analytical chemistry for the dispensing of variable, measured amounts of a chemical solution. A volumetric burette delivers measured volumes of liquid. Piston burettes are similar to syringes, but with precision bore and plunger.

Erlenmeyer flask

A conical, flat-bottomed laboratory flask with a narrow neck.

Coverslip

A cover slip, coverslip or cover glass is a thin flat piece of transparent material, usually square or rectangular, about 20 mm (4/5 in) wide and a fraction of a millimetre thick, that is placed over objects for viewing with a microscope.

Crucible & cover

A crucible is a melting pot used for extremely hot chemical reactions — the crucible needs to be melt-proof. Literally, a crucible is a vessel used for very hot processes, like fusing metals. Another meaning of the word is a very significant and difficult trial or test.

Test tube holder

A cylindrical tube of clear glass, usually open at one end and rounded at the other, used as a container for small amounts of a substance in laboratory tests and experiments.

Hot plate

A flat heated surface (or a set of these), typically portable, used for cooking food or keeping it hot.

Graduated cylinder

A graduated cylinder, measuring cylinder or mixing cylinder is a common piece of laboratory equipment used to measure the volume of a liquid. It has a narrow cylindrical shape.

Beaker

A lipped cylindrical glass container for laboratory use.

Mortar & pestle

A pestle is a heavy, blunt tool used to grind things up, such as spices or herbs. If you're grinding spices, you put them in a container called a mortar and use the pestle to smash them up until they're finely ground. The mortar and pestle was originally used by pharmacists to grind substances for medical use.

Pipet

A pipette, pipet, pipettor or chemical dropper is a laboratory tool commonly used in chemistry, biology and medicine to transport a measured volume of liquid, often as a media dispenser.

Stopper

A plug for sealing a hole, especially in the neck of a bottle or other container.

Spot plate

A porcelain or glass plate usually with several small depressions for use in spot tests.

Microscope slide

A rectangular piece of glass on which an object is mounted or placed for examination under a microscope. a mounted transparency, typically one placed in a projector for viewing on a screen.

Ring stand

A retort stand, sometimes called a ring stand, is a piece of scientific equipment, to which clamps can be attached to hold test tubes and other equipment such as burettes which are most often used in titration experiments.

Scalpel

A scalpel, or lancet, is a small and extremely sharp bladed instrument used for surgery, anatomical dissection, and various arts and crafts (called a hobby knife). Scalpels may be single-use disposable or re-usable.

Dropper

A short glass tube with a rubber bulb at one end and a tiny hole at the other, for measuring out drops of medicine or other liquids.

Inoculating loop

An inoculation loop, also called a smear loop, inoculation wand or microstreaker, is a simple tool used mainly by microbiologists to retrieve an inoculum from a culture of microorganisms. The loop is used in the cultivation of microbes on plates by transferring inoculum for streaking.

Thermometer

An instrument for measuring and indicating temperature, typically one consisting of a narrow, hermetically sealed glass tube marked with graduations and having at one end a bulb containing mercury or alcohol that expands and contracts in the tube with heating and cooling.

Scissors

An instrument used for cutting cloth, paper, and other thin material, consisting of two blades laid one on top of the other and fastened in the middle so as to allow them to be opened and closed by a thumb and finger inserted through rings on the end of their handles.

Tongs

An instrument with two movable arms that are joined at one end, used for picking up and holding things.

Iron ring

An iron ring is an item of laboratory equipment which comprises a conjoined metal ring and radially-extending rod.

Microscope

An optical instrument used for viewing very small objects, such as mineral samples or animal or plant cells, typically magnified several hundred times.

Forceps

Forceps (plural forcipes) are a handheld, hinged instrument used for grasping and holding objects. Forceps are used when fingers are too large to grasp small objects or when many objects need to be held at one time while the hands are used to perform a task.

Beaker tongs

It can carry a beaker that is hot.

Double buret clamp

It can hold two test tubes in place

Striker

It helps start the fire for the Bunsen Burner

Test tube clamp/Buret clamp

It holds a test tube into place

Dissecting probe

It is used for dissecting.

Pipestem/clay triangle

Pipestem triangle. Related items. Wire gauze. A pipeclay triangle is a piece of laboratory apparatus that is used to support a crucible being heated by a Bunsen burner or other heat source. It is made of wires strung in an equilateral triangle on which are strung hollow ceramic, normally fire clay, tubes.

Test tube brush

Used to clean test tubes.

Test tube rack

Used to hold test tubes.